Rolando Cruz attorney joins legal team for Juan Rivera

Juan Rivera is scheduled to be resentenced Thursday in rape and murder of Holly Staker

June 25, 2009

WAUKEGAN — Lawrence Marshall, who played a key role in reversing the murder conviction in the Rolando Cruz case in DuPage County, will now lead the legal team that plans to appeal the conviction of Juan Rivera in Lake County, one of Rivera's attorneys said.

Rivera, 36, was convicted May 9 for the third time in the 1992 rape and murder of Holly Staker, 11, in Waukegan, despite DNA evidence that showed semen found in Staker's body was not Rivera's.